JOHN FINN
After several years behind a desk working as a certified public accountant at KPMG in upstate New York, John Finn felt the magnetic pull of the city. He headed to the metropolis in the mid ‘90s to try his hand at film accounting. A several year stint as a freelancer saw Finn immersed in production and post-production accounting. He would use this invaluable, albeit humbling, experience to start and run his own show -- JFA.
With Finn at the helm, JFA jumped out of the gate in 1998, and quickly met with success. Clients stacked up on his roster, the result of a full array of production services delivered quickly and conscientiously. After years of shepherding countless film and television budgets to their final destination, Finn observed that producers were spending an inordinate amount of money on payroll, taking precious dollars away from their creative endeavors on set. Long before bundling became a household word, Finn saw the simplicity and savings in combining payroll services with accounting. In 2004, he created his own payroll company to dovetail with JFA accounting services. IndiePay was born.
Seeking to further refine the processes surrounding entertainment industry accounting led Finn to collaborate on and develop a double-entry software system, dubbed IndieWare™.
It’s not a steady diet of technology and numbers for Finn. When he clears his desk of spreadsheets, he picks up the bass guitar and plays front man for Esquela, an Americana band with a small, but loyal, fan base. His love of music blossomed into an annual festival called Livestock, where local and regional bands gather for a daylong celebration of music, food and drink. The music making takes place on his upstate 30-acre spread, a magnetic pull back to the tight-knit community where he spent his childhood. Finn raises his two daughters here, gathering inspiration for the next creative endeavor.